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fairy tale

[ fair-ee teyl ]

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noun

a story, usually for children, about elves, hobgoblins, dragons, fairies, or other magical creatures.
an incredible or misleading statement, account, or belief:
His story of being a millionaire is just a fairy tale.

of, relating to, or suggesting a fairy tale:
a fairy-tale castle.
idealized or romantic, often to an unrealistic extent:
Many people still want to believe in true love and fairy-tale endings.

fairy-tale

of or relating to a fairy tale
resembling a fairy tale, esp in being extremely happy or fortunate
a true story with a fairy-tale ending
highly improbable
he came out with a fairy-tale account of his achievements

fairy tale

a story about fairies or other mythical or magical beings, esp one of traditional origin told to children
a highly improbable account

First recorded in 1740–50

Not that the demonstration had anything to do with this couple, whom Sarah seems to see as a fairy tale come to life.

Were the fairy-tale true it really would shame the affluent west.

The story was a very subversive fairy tale by Roald Dahl, and a fantastic part.

Today, the quaint spectacle of a stage-managed fairy-tale celebration strikes many of us as a load of garbage.

Is there more to U.S. involvement overseas than the fairy tale of knights saving fair maidens from dragons?

The tailor of the fairy tale with his "seven at a blow" is not in it with the gunnery Lieutenant of a battleship.

He, Bastien-Lepage, painter of the soil, found himself unable to transfer to canvas the enchantment of that land of fairy tale!

Life at the Princes country-seat seemed to Tchaikovsky like a fairy tale.

But on the night when ended the Fairy tale we have seen that a new Sally began springing into life.

By all means read the chapters on The Possibilities of Agriculture: no fairy-tale is more miraculous.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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